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Webinar Video: Word Warm-ups for mastery and automaticity in decoding
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Presented April 12, 2018 by Karen Hunter, Educational Consultant
Students who cannot decode words are not fluent readers! Our students must master phoneme awareness and phonics skills and have a strategy for decoding multisyllabic words.
Most phonics programs teach students to decode words accurately but learning phonics does not guarantee that students are able to decode words automatically. They need automatic word recognition skills in order to develop fluency, an essential skill for comprehension.
We all have students who need additional support to improve these foundational skills. So, Read Naturally has developed Word Warm-ups—a quick, timed, mostly independent program—to develop mastery and automaticity in decoding. Students listen to audio-supported lessons on CDs and use printed exercises and graphs as they work through the steps.
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Topics Covered
- Why decoding skills are so valuable.
- Why automaticity is critical.
- Which skills help students decode multisyllabic words.
- What a student does to complete each step in a Word Warm-ups lesson.
- How audio-supported lessons systematically teach the most common phonics and syllable patterns.
- How the Read Naturally Strategy is used to build automaticity.
- How students are individually placed to differentiate instruction.
- How Word Warm-ups can be used alongside Read Naturally Live and Read Naturally Encore.
Duration
30 minutes
Audience
- Classroom teachers
- Curriculum specialists
- Reading specialists
- Title I teachers
- Special education and RTI teachers
- Paraprofessionals
- Educational specialists
WORD WARM-UPS RESOURCES
Program Samples
Word Warm-ups sample (pdf)
Step-by-step Word Warm-ups example with audio support
Student Assessments
Word Warm-Ups Student Assessment—Level 1 (pdf)
Word Warm-Ups Student Assessment—Level 2 (pdf)
Word Warm-Ups Student Assessment—Level 3 (pdf)
Blog Articles
"Time for Phonics"
"Free Resource! New and Improved Word Warm-ups Graphs"
"Thinking Outside the (Placement) Box"
Questions
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